Movie Review :Ted

Yesterday Michelle and I went to see the movie Ted at the theater. I have to be honest it was a movie that I wanted to see since I first saw the movies Red Band Trailer earlier this year. I knew that I had to see this movie this summer.

Yesterday the movie opened up nation wide and Michelle and I took advantage of a little bit of time off from work to see the movie and do a little Red Lobster for Dinner.

I have to say, I almost lost my breath not once, but twice during the movie. Chad wants to see it but Michelle is afraid he will bust a stitch out from his recent surgery from laughing so hard.

I have to say there are times when you see a trailer and a movie looks good but all the highlights are in the trailer and it's a big disappointment. This is NOT one of those movies, as funny as the trailers are, they just can not do the movie any justice. It may be the funniest movie that I have ever seen in my life. There were a number of cameos that had you laughing as well, and the one liners will cause you to bust a gut.

This is a movie that will make you laugh and cry and leaving the theater feeling that you got more than your money's worth. I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND  to anyone who likes Family Guy and Seth Macfarlane's witty brand of humor to not miss this. This was a world series winning walk off grand slam.

Rosiak Party

I have a big squirt gun somewhere around the house. It's one that I have had for an awfully long time and bring out once a year. The day that I bring it out is the day of the year that we have a very bug water battle at the Rosiak 4th of July party.

Today is that day and I'll be bringing out the big gun to soak all who get in its way at our annual water battle.

Trish's Mom and Dad, Pat and Frank have a big 4th of July Party every year. This will be my 15th straight year of having the honor of getting an invitation and attending the party.

Game on for the water battle, I hear Layla wants to get me today.

Happy Birthday Chad Collins

I would like to take this opportunity today to wish Michelle's son Chad a very Happy 24th birthday today.

He's a hard one to get a picture of, so I had to look and find one that I had, but I found one from Christmas last years.

If you see Chad today make sure that you take a little bit of time out and wish him a very happy birthday today. He's still recovering from his surgery, but he seems to be getting better and better as every day passes. I'm not sure what his pland are for the day, I guess it all depends on if Laiah is working today or not.

Happy Birthday Chad.

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look foreword to, when we can take time to cease the labors for the week and take a little bit of needed time out to enjoy the fruits of those labors. It is once again the dawn of another weekend, and a Big Ole Hairy Friday.

For Michelle and myself however, it's a day of recovery from yesterday. The show went great, it was in the mid 90's all day and even into the evening. We did have a nice cool breeze blowing through our EZ-Up and gave us some relief on the day.

It was a great day, I can't wait until next years concert so we can do this all again. The parrotheads were out in full force yesterday giving Jean and Gary a very memorable first Buffet show. Jean was dancing the whole night long and it seemed like everytime you turned around she was hugging some young piece of female eye candy and trying to hook Gary up. It was memorable.

No free movies tonight at BOPARC, but the movie TED is coming out today and I think Michelle and I are going to try to go and see it. We still have some unpacking of the car to do and she has some family coming into town for a few hours today that she wants to visit. She hasn't seen them in a few years and they are passing through today on their way to Myrtle Beach.

Have a great day, we're going to try to recover.

FINS UP!!!!!

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out and look through the thousands of digital pictures that I have on my computer and find just one special image to blog about. Briefly reliving that lost moment in time forever captured in a digital image. Sometimes it's easy to find a picture and sometimes it's pretty difficult, it's always a whole lot of fun.

This weeks image takes me back a few years, a day that forever changed my life and my indoctrination into the world of being a parrothead. This was taken at the tailgate of my first Jimmy Buffett Concert (not my last) a few years ago.

Mark Devault had told me for years how much fun going to a Jimmy Buffett concert was, that year the concert was at PNC Park and it was HOT HOT HOT that day for sure. We went early in the day and Mark, Denise and a friend of Mark's tailgated all day right beside the stadium giving me my first experience to the parrothead nation.

Today in Burgettstown it will be 95° and scorching HOT HOT HOT. The parrothead nation will once again assemble and Michelle and I plan on being there once again. This will be my sixth concert and Michelle's fifth.

The pleasure today as a big thank you for doing so much for us last year for our wedding is the ability to partially repay Jean and Gary for the enormous amount of help they both gave us last year for the wedding. No one went away hungry and people still talk to me about all that food. Today I get to give them both a little thank you as we indoctrinate them into the world of parrotheads.


I hope you have a great day, we plan to.


FINS UP!!!!!

Hump Day for most, four day weekend for others

It's Wednesday, the middle of the week that signifies the weekend is not too far away, but for some of us this is the start of a four day weekend.

For me and Michelle, this is the start of a four day weekend. With the Buffett concert tomorrow night, we'll be tailgating most of the day tomorrow and recovering on Friday from our venture into the parrotthead nation.

This is the only long weekend like this we have planned for the summer, we're taking our vacation in September when we go on our cruise, so this will be our longest extended weekend of the summer. Michelle wants to save some of her vacation time for after Thanksgiving when we go back to where she is from for her High School Reunion.


Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Well Monday is now in our rear view mirrors and we are staring straight down the barrel of a Tuesday, I for the life of me can't think of a better reason than that to do a tidbits.

* It's been 1,565 days since that first date with Michelle a few years ago. My life has been better for it ever since.

* It's been 788 days since our engagement. I think when we became engaged Michelle thought I was going to make her wait another 777 days before I married her.

* That being said, we've been married for 325 days now.

* There are 182 more shopping days left until Christmas.

* In 75 more short days we will be setting sail to the Bahamas. Ironically if it wasn't already paid in full they would be taking the balance of what we owed today to ensure our early bird discount.It's all paid for however including the tips.

* In 2 more days, we're going to Pittsburgh to join the Parrot Head nation once gain and see Jimmy!!!! Fins Up!!!

*  I updated my geospatial software at work yesterday. I'm now running the new 10.1 software, they used version 10 as a half transition from the 9 Suite and 10.1 is the completely different software. Everything changes from the license manager to no longer being able to run VBA and having to write everything in Python.

* Chad is still sore, but is still getting better day by day.

* I have a Doctors appointment this morning. I'll go check in between a few meetings today.

* Cardio day this morning.

* Hi ho hi ho

Back to Work

Well it's time for me to stop enjoying my fun filled three day weekend and get ready to go to work the next three days. I do this so I can continue to enjoy the things that we look forward to on the times that we don't work.

Going to be a short week for me, going to make next weekend a four day weekend as we head out to see Jimmy Buffett this Thursday. So we'll take of Friday too because it is an all day event Thursday and we'll be getting home early Friday Morning.

Chad is doing well for all who are concerned. With each passing day he is in less and less pain and starting to get around a little more. It'll still be another two to three weeks before the doctor completely releases him to no restrictions, but he is recovering nicely.

On a sad note, a damn deer has eaten all of our pepper plants. Last night I walked out and even caught saw it in the back yard. I feel a man vs deer winner take all to the death wrestling match coming on pretty soon. Buy your tickets now.

Speaking of, off to the gym to train.

Hi ho hi ho

Birthday Party

A few years ago Val decided it was much easier to have one bigger party than to have two parties a month or so apart for the kids. So she picked a date somewhere in the middle and we celebrate both Erica and Josh's birthdays together.

Last year we did it at Marilla Park and it was nice for us in the older crowd, we recalled the pic nics we used to have with my Dad at the same location. The Food fights and the good times, last year gave the next generation and the ones who had never experienced it a chance to live it.

This year since Val now has her pool open and the temperatures are due to be in the upper 80's today she is having it once again at her house this afternoon. Both Michelle and I will be there with our camera with us taking a few pictures.

You never know maybe one of today's pictures will be used for a Photo Flashsback someday recalling the moment in time that was captured.

I have to say this is always one of the high points of my summers.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Once again I sit in a quiet household, Michelle is sleeping after an exhausting day yesterday and I'm up early in the AM to collect my thoughts for the day.

Some movie is playing on HBO, not even sure what it is and just planning out the rest of the day. If Chad is up to it, and he meets certain criteria like walking and a bowl movement he will be allowed to come home as early as today. I know it's been a while since he has slept in his own bed, first with going to DC to work and then on the day that he gets back having this trouble. I know he is wanting to be home.

For Michelle and me, it's going to be a trip to Sam's this morning, a trip to the hospital and that is probably going to be the extent of our day. I know she is just mentally drained from the events of the past week.

Have a great day.

Update on Chad

We went down for surgery a little before noon. His surgery was supposed to take place at 12:30, but the anesthesiologist was having trouble with an older patient and they did not get him back into the operating room until about 2:00. Dr. Johnson told Michelle it should take about an hour, any longer and he has probably ran into complications and advised her that he may have to have a colostomy bag in the worst case scenario.

The surgery did last about an hour, and the Diverticulitis that was initially diagnosed as the problem was not the problem. His colon was/is in very good shape with the exception of a little bruising. It seems a fatty deposit on the outside of the colon was the problem. Dr Johnson said he has seen this three or four times and there is no answer as to why they start to appear and grow. It left a very sticky residue that needed to be cleaned out.

His Gall bladder was fine, his colon was fine, but there was some slight bruising on his appendix and they opted to remove it to prevent it from causing any problems in the future.

They brought him out of the recovery room at about 5:00 (two hours after conclusion of surgery) and he was sick and in pain, which could be expected.

Prognosis is good and he should be able to come home tomorrow.

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look foreword to, when we can take time to cease the labors for the week and take a little bit of needed time out to enjoy the fruits of those labors. It is once again the dawn of another weekend, and a Big Ole Hairy Friday.

My Friday however may be non existent or cut short today. Chad is having surgery and Michelle and I are going to be there for it, Laiah just started a new job yesterday and has to work all day, Hayley has to work all day so it'll probably be the two of us at the Hospital.

For those of you looking for a little cheap, and by cheap I mean free entertainment, Movies in the Park tonight is playing the movie Puss in Boots this evening at Jack Roberts Park. They will start the festivities at 7:00 and will have the bounce house up and running for all the little ones. 

Have a great day.

Update on Chad

Michelle just found out this morning, they are planning on operating on Chad tomorrow sometime around noon. We stopped up last night and they still had not returned with the results of the Cat Scan yet, but Michelle saw hi surgeon his morning.

He's still in a lo of pain and wants this whole ordeal to be over with. Worst case scenario is that he may have to have a colostomy bag installed, but it could be a temporary thing.

Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow as he enters into this operation.

Photo Flashback Thursday

It's once again that time of the week when I take a little bit of time out and look through all of my older pictures and select just one picture to tell a little story about. Some times it's pretty easy finding that picture and sometimes it's pretty difficult, but it is always a lot of fun and one of my favorite blogs of the week to write. 

I thought I would celebrate yesterday being the first day of summer with a picture of a group of guys I used to refer to as the boys of summer. 

If you know me, I played softball for a lot of years at BOPARC, I'm currently in my second year of retirement with another goal in mind, but my heart will always be on the fields. It was the time of the year that I always looked forward to the most and I was fortunate enough top play on a number of pretty good teams through the years. 

The photo from this weeks flashback is an old photo of the last year we were Prime Time. We had lost a few players from the Championship run the year before, but we picked up a few players too. This was the season we got moved up and were tearing up the league until we got to the playoffs and the team we played magically was about 10 players different than what we had clobbered earlier in the year. IOW they picked up a bunch of illegal roster players, most of which were open flight players, and they turned the table on us. 

I miss playing the game, half of me wants to continue to play but I know I can no longer compete at the level that I want to. My heart will always be out on those fields though. Some of my fondest memories. 

Hi ho hi ho

Hump Day

Monday and Tuesday are now behind us, now if you take a little peek over the noon time hump and just on the other side of a Photo Flash back you can see the dawn of yet another fun filled weekend. Today, is over the hump day, it's all downhill from here.

To all of you from the great State of West Virginia, celebrate our states 149th birthday today. I have to say that I was born a Georgia Peach, but my heart and my home will always be Morgantown, West Virginia. It's where I am from and it's where my family lives, so I can take great pride today and help my state celebrate it's birthday.

Chad was scheduled to have a Cat Scan yesterday evening, as of the time of me writing this blog (he's probably under the CT scanner as I type this) I do not know the results yet. I know that he is still in a lot of pain and surgery is most likely going to happen pretty soon.

I have been holding down the home front, making coffee, feeding animals, watering the garden, making dinner, and other things so that it frees up some of Michelle's non working time so she can be at the hospital. Once we definitely know there will be surgery, she'll probably take that day off, but we're just sitting back and holding our breath waiting for someone to make a decision or for him to get better.

Hi ho hi ho

Happy Birthday Erica Jean Nicholson

I would like to take this opportunity to wish a very beautiful and a very special little girl a very Happy Birthday today. Erica Jean Nicholson turns the magical age of 8 years old today.

 It seems like it was only yesterday that she was born, and Val and Bobby became parents for the first time.

 Val has a party scheduled for Erica jean this Sunday, we'll all get together and have cake and ice cream and watch Erica open all her wonderful birthday presents.

 If you see Erica Jean today, make sure that you wish this precious little girl a very Happy Birthday.

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Once again Monday is in our rear view mirror and we are staring straight down the barrel of a Tuesday, I can't think of a better reason than that to do a tidbits.

* It has been 1,558 days since mine and Michelle's first date, I set a new record every day.

* It's been 781 days since I got down one knee and proposed marriage.

* It's been 318 days since our wedding.

* Only 189 more shopping days left until Christmas.

* We set sail in 82 more days.

* 9 more days (single digits) until we party down with Jimmy Buffet.

*  Chad had been diagnosed with diverticulitis, if he is still in pain this morning after all of the anti-biotics and pain meds they have given him, they may have to operate. As of last night, he was still in a lot of pain.

* Our patio garden is doing very well this year, we decided to stick with one Tomato plant, a bunch of peppers and some cucumbers. I think the first thing that will come to maturity will be a jalapeno pepper. Tomatoes are coming along fine.

* Heres one for you, in 11 days West Virginia University will officially out of the Big East and a member of the Big XII

* Cardio day if it's not raining

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

It's time to stick our noses back on the grindstone and get back to work for another week. Get back to  doing the things that we do that allows us to enjoy our weekends so much.

Chad is still in the hospital, we'll know more today after hearing from the Surgeon. Looks like he is going to be in there for a few days and possibly having surgery. I'll keep everyone updated as to what is going on as we know.

Michelle was with him all day yesterday as Laiah came and rested a little bit here. Hopefully Michelle got some rest last night as she didn't get a lot of sleep and rest over the weekend.

It's a back to work kind of day for me, another project I am working on launched last week. The EDX or Energy data Exchange is now live but not really published. We're still gathering data and information to put into it, but it is out there.

Hi ho hi ho

Chad Hospitalized

I woke up this morning and thought it was a little extra quiet here, come to find out later in the wee early hours of the morning that Chad was having severe stomach pains last night and Laiah took him to the hospital.

He was admitted last night at Mon General and may have to stay a day or two for observation. They have run a number of tests so far, and everything seems to be pointing back towards his gall bladder.He'll have an ultrasound sometime today and we'll know more.

Looks like it might be surgery for him, good thing he's on my insurance. My boss pays for Super Blue Plus on Blue Cross and Blue Shield for the entire family, I am lucky to be working for such a great company.